This U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) strategy document, leaked by Edward Snowden to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, was released to the public by the New York Times on November 22, 2013 here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/23/us/politics/23nsa-sigint-strategy-document.html. It accompanied an article co-authored by Laura Poitras and James Risen, titled "N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power."

In the February 23, 2012 document, the NSA outlines its strategy for the use of signals intelligence, stating that in response to the digital age, "the Signals Intelligence Directorate must undertake a profound and revolutionary shift from the mission approach." The first three goals for 2012-16 that it laid out were to:

1. "Revolutionize analysis – fundamentally shift our analytic approach from a production to a discovery bias, enriched by innovative customer/partner engagement, radically increasing operational impact across all mission domains."
2. "Fully leverage internal and external NSA partnerships to collaboratively discover targets, find their vulnerabilities, and overcome their network/communication defenses."
3. "Dynamically integrate endpoint, midpoint, industrial-enabled, and cryptanalytic capabilities to reach previously inaccessible targets in support of exploitation, cyber defense, and cyber operations."

According to document metadata, the pdf of this strategy document was created on March 5, 2012 by user "jeneme2", likely before being acquired by Edward Snowden. It was modified on October 9, 2013, after it had been leaked.

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